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[–] xkforce 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Walmart prices:

512 GB Ally: $399

512 GB Steam Deck: $499

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, that's the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.

I'm not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There's also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source

I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.

[–] Cort 8 points 4 months ago

iirc they're all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.